1. What is copyright?
Copyright is the law of the US that protects the work of authors, artists, composers,and
others being used without permission.
2. What is fair use?
Fair Use allows you to use a limited amount of copyrighted material for your educational use.
3. Can a student use a picture from the Smithsonian museum in their report?
Yes, the Smithsonium has granted permission to students to use there photographs for school reports.
4. What is attribution?
You should always give credit or attribition to a person who created the work such as photograph, sound recording, motion picture,
or document.
5. Can I show everyone my school project by putting it on a web page?
No you cant. when you put material on a web page it is being shown to an audience outside your school.
6. Does it matter how much of a song or video I use in my work?
It does matter. Amount refers to use of a portion of work. For motion media you can use up to 10% or up 2 1000 words.
7. Dosn't the public have the right to use music and art?
Yes they can because the copyright laws try to balance the rights of artists and other with the rights of the public.
8. What is the public domain?
Public Domain is works that are not copyrighted are public domain and can be used without permision. You should still give credit to the source.
9. Can I use picture if they don't have the word copyright or the copyright symbol on them?
Just because the website does not have the copyright symbol doesnt mean that it is not coprighted infact almost every website is copyrighted.
10. I want to use a recording from a website but can't find anything about copyright, what should I do?
1. What is copyright?
Copyright is the law of the US that protects the work of authors, artists, composers,and
others being used without permission.
2. What is fair use?
Fair Use allows you to use a limited amount of copyrighted material for your educational use.
3. Can a student use a picture from the Smithsonian museum in their report?
Yes, the Smithsonium has granted permission to students to use there photographs for school reports.
4. What is attribution?
You should always give credit or attribition to a person who created the work such as photograph, sound recording, motion picture,
or document.
5. Can I show everyone my school project by putting it on a web page?
No you cant. when you put material on a web page it is being shown to an audience outside your school.
6. Does it matter how much of a song or video I use in my work?
It does matter. Amount refers to use of a portion of work. For motion media you can use up to 10% or up 2 1000 words.
7. Dosn't the public have the right to use music and art?
Yes they can because the copyright laws try to balance the rights of artists and other with the rights of the public.
8. What is the public domain?
Public Domain is works that are not copyrighted are public domain and can be used without permision. You should still give credit to the source.
9. Can I use picture if they don't have the word copyright or the copyright symbol on them?
Just because the website does not have the copyright symbol doesnt mean that it is not coprighted infact almost every website is copyrighted.
10. I want to use a recording from a website but can't find anything about copyright, what should I do?